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ended, handsomely, yet sooner than I quite expected. It 
seems to me you have managed the affair very well indeed : 
a manful rustic frankness runs thro’ it ; a wholesome fresh- 
ness, energy, sincerity : it is very clear everywhere, very 
credible ; and, to sum up many merits in one, it is singularly 
memorable , and stands out in distinct visibility and con- 
tinuity, in one’s mind after reading it. You will give an 
innocent and profitable pleasure, I hope, to very many 
persons by what you have written ; and make known, with 
advantage to all parties, important forms of human life, in 
quarters where they have not been known hitherto, and 
much required to be known. 
On the whole, however, we must not yet let you off, or 
allow you to persuade yourself that you have done with us. 
A vast deal more of knowledge about Lancashire operatives, 
and their ways of living and thinking, their miseries and 
advantages, their virtues and sins, still lies in your experi- 
ence ; — and you must endeavour, by all good methods, to 
get it winnowed, the chaff of it well separated from the 
wheat, and to let us have the latter, as your convenience 
will serve. To workers themselves you might have much 
to say, in the way of admonition, encouragement, instruction, 
reproof; and the Captains of Workers, the rich people, are 
very willing also to listen to you, and certain of them will 
believe heartily whatever true thing you tell them : this is 
a combination of auditors which nobody but yourself has 
such hold of at present ; and you must encourage yourself 
to do with all fidelity whatever you can in that peculiar and 
by no means unimportant position you occupy. “ Brevity, 
sincerity,” — and in fact, all sorts of manful virtue , — will 
have once more, as they everywhere in this world do, avail 
you. 
Since I wrote last, I have never seen Lord Lansdowne; 
know not what he did with those Nos, of your Book, or 
